Heinlein v. Boston & Providence Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff at the defendant’s station in Roxbury. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Bacon, J., evidence was introduced tending to prove that on the evening of October 12,1885, the plaintiff, at about eleven o’clock p.
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Tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff at the defendant’s station in Roxbury. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Bacon, J., evidence was introduced tending to prove that on the evening of October 12,1885, the plaintiff, at about eleven o’clock p. M., in company with his cousins, Emil Seiffert and Charles H. Heinlein, started for the Roxbury station, the plaintiff intending to take the last train on the defendant’s road into Boston at 10.45 P. M.; that the Roxbury station is situated between Tremont Street and the railroad, doors opening out upon the street and upon a…
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
The plaintiff entered the waiting-room of the defendant’s station in Roxbury, intending to take the last evening train for Boston, for which one of two friends who accompanied him had informed him he was in time. In fact, it had been gone some fifteen minutes. With-his friends, the plaintiff remained “ three minutes, or something like that,” as he stated on cross-examination, or “ about two minutes,” as other witnesses stated, in conversation with them. The station agent was there clearing up the station, but no inquiries were made of him or any one on the subject of the train. At the end of…
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